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Canada got the last hurrah at the Celebration of Light Saturday evening, closing the three-night event with a winning display. Canada was declared the winner of the event, with Brazil and China finishing second and third, respectively.

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After a plaque unveiling ceremony last week in the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame, newly inducted speed skater Denny Morrison retreated to a quiet spot, plopping himself down on a medal podium recovered from the 2010 Olympics.

Last year, filmmaker Robin Macdonald and his pal, American Olympian Gus Kenworthy were both in Sochi.
Kenworthy competed during the Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in Men's freestyle skiing while Macdonald was working at the Gorki Media Centre.
Outside the tent were the pack of dogs soon-to-be adopted by the two friends.
Macdonald flew back with five dogs but unfortunately two other dogs died from a virus.
Mishka and Jake lives in Vancouver for the most part but spends half of the year with Kenworthy in Colorado.
Moma, who is Jake’s mom lives with Kenworthy’s mother in Telluride, Colorado.

When the globe’s top skiers hit Whistler Blackcomb to compete in the World Skiing Invitational’s slopestyle competition at the World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF), they’ll be joined by TV crews from ABC and thousands of awed spectators. Slopestyle had its debut at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, and its popularity has been escalating ever since.

Jane Channell picked up a nickname during her rookie season on the World Cup skeleton circuit, but it has nothing to do with her explosive starts or her stunning fourth-place finish at her first world championships.

At 34 and having sustained 32 broken bones, Kimberley Joines’ athletic career seems like it’s been one continual comeback. So when Sport BC informed her a few weeks ago that she was the 2014 recipient of the Harry Jerome Comeback Award, the determined sit-skier from Rossland was a little nonplussed.

MARIBOR, Slovenia — Mikaela Shiffrin defied the pouring rain to comfortably earn her 12th career slalom victory Sunday, taking sole possession of the women’s World Cup record for most wins in the discipline by a teenager.

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — Alberta’s Val Sweeting was reeling after her first playoff loss to Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. She’ll get a chance to avenge that result in Sunday’s final. Sweeting couldn’t hide her emotions […]

PRINCE GEORGE - The list of athletes who have graduated from the Canada Games to Olympics, world championship and pro sports stardom reads like a Who’s Who of Canadian sport. On the 2015 Winter Games website, under a section highlighting just a few of those athletes, are the names of Olympic hockey hero Sidney Crosby (Canada Winter Games 2007), two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash (Canada Summer Games 1993), women’s hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser (1991) and speedskating star Catriona LeMay Doan (1983, ’87).

VICTORIA — When Ombudsman Jay Chalke was handed the job of investigating those botched firings in the health ministry this week, he offered multiple assurances to the public that his office would do its best to get to the bottom of the murky affair. “I am committed to a diligent and professional investigation into this matter,” he vowed in a statement issued by his office after a legislature committee referred the matter to him.